Rosalie (industrialreader)

“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“I’m constitutionally incapable of trusting people who treat their books that badly.”
― Dot Hutchison, Roses of May